Word: weighting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...whippoorwill came sharp and insistent across fields fat with Indiana's richest harvest in years. At Walter Barbour's 232-acre farm outside Indianapolis, baskets of sun-ripened peaches and big red tomatoes crowded the fruit sheds. In the orchards, the trees sagged under the weight of their reddening apples. Barbour had no idea how many bushels hung on the trees: "All I know is that there couldn't be any more apples in there than what's on the trees right...
Secretary Acheson, who is smarting under criticism of his White Paper on China (TIME, Aug. 15), and grows steadily more emotional over the Chinese Nationalist regime, jumped to the conviction that the Republican amendment would earmark aid for the Nationalists, and gave no weight to the larger idea of harassing the Communists...
...forced merchants to lose profits on the suits in stock (TIME, July 18). Last week, Goodall's President Elmer L. Ward was confident that he could patch everything up. He had a brand-new kind of Palm Beach cloth which, he predicted, would revolutionize men's light-weight suits...
...Limiting weight, says Dr. King, is urged "with sweeping but poorly documented claims" that it lessens the dangers of miscarriage, stillbirths and malformations. This argument, he reports, can cause hysterical fear in some impressionable women...
...Meat. Chapman was captured twice but escaped each time. His weight dropped from 170 Ibs. to 90. He learned to eat rat meat and think it tasty; once, he, even took in stride the information that he had just eaten roast Jap. He was frequently near death from malaria, and he left the jungle in August 1945, with a complexion the color of his jungle-green uniform. But before the month was over, he volunteered to go back on a military mission and was parachuted back into his "green hell" for another two months...